Back in time to the 1977 Academy Awards
FILE – This Oct. 11, 2012 file photo shows singer Barbra Streisand performing at the Barclays Center in the Brooklyn borough of New York. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced Wednesday that the 70-year-old singing veteran will hit the stage on Feb. 24. It will be her second performance at the Oscars, and her first in 36 years. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, file)
Barbra Streisand will be back on stage at the Academy Awards this year, in a rather late encore performance 36 years after she sang the theme from A Star Is Born in 1977.
Here’s what it looked like then, when Streisand performed with John Denver and won her own Oscar for best original song for the A Star Is Born theme “Evergreen.” (The announcer is speaking Portuguese, but you get the idea.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aIvP_WPKKA
After that little trip back in time, here’s what else happened at the 1977 Oscars:
Streisand, now 70, also won an Oscar for best actress in Funny Girl in 1968.
There is no word on what she will perform at the Academy Awards on Feb. 24, 2013, but Streisand will join already-confirmed singing stars Adel and Norah Jones.